ABSTRACT

Of course, many developers are still programming for Windows 3.x, and 16-bit applications run fine on Windows 95 and even have some advantages with regard to system privileges, compared with 32-bit applications. As described in the last chapter, putting 32-bit instructions into a 16-bit segment incurs only a small instruction prefix penalty. Putting 32-bit segments into a 16-bit application can also be done. Considering these points, many developers do not feel any urgency to go totally 32-bit.